rusticate
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He plans to rusticate in Mexico, not talk any English for 90 days.
From Time Magazine Archive
Johnny Case solves his problem neatly by leaving his fiancee, Julia, to rusticate in the Seton mansion, eloping with her older sister, Linda, who shares his disdain for her family bankroll.
From Time Magazine Archive
Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, who thought the Review's firm stand might encourage the Republican Party to rusticate Welch and all other extremists of his breed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Franco, who has yet to commit himself unequivocally to restoration of the monarchy, sought to rusticate the prince and his prospective bride outside Madrid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why Pasquale, who loves the palpitating centres of existence, should choose to rusticate in this semi-arcadian district, I cannot imagine.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
The tables had mesquite stumps for legs, attached to slabs of wood covered with rusticated concrete.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2021
Two students were rusticated, or dismissed, by their colleges for climbing King's College Chapel in June 1937.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2019
Columns were piled on pilasters, rusticated plinths groaned under heaving cornices and every junction was elaborated with a twiddly moulding.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017
His son, like many youth in his generation, was also "rusticated" -- sent down to the countryside -- for seven years.
From Reuters ● Feb. 17, 2011
I guess this was the rusticated equivalent of coming out.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
A quiet, brooding sense of menace settles in right at the beginning, which finds Mr. Clooney, his silver hair complemented by a snowy beard, rusticating in the snowy Swedish countryside.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2010
Old Jack Paar, supposedly rusticating there, is host-narrator.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1940, Prince Abdul Illah quashed one would-be Army coup by seizing the Iraqi telephone service and rusticating two uppity generals.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an undoubted will, and in my father's own handwriting, and dated more than a year before he died and when I was rusticating from college.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
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